Rdutch 0 #1 February 24, 2004 When I was around 12 years old me and my family were taking a trip from Miami to Ohio, somewhere in bumfunkt Virginia our car took a shit. I remember being a kid in a town without a game room (remember them?) so instead being from flat florida I went exploring the woods and rock formations. I came across this real old cemetary, and after looking around the oldest person there out of maybe 200 graves was 16, and the worse thing was it was from 1902 to 1912, how I remember that I dont know and how I remember this is even worse but it has been forever embeded in my head, all the tombstones were basic stones laid flat but on the oldest girl there was a monument and on all sides there was a poem, I remember it to this day ( actually its in a song now but the song came out a long long time after.) here is the poem, Im real curious where it came from, because I had many nightmares because of it as a kid, Remember friends as you pass by, you are now as once was I, As I am you soon shall be, prepare for Death and follow me. safe to say I bolted the cemetary and ran all the way back to the hotel. The headstone was from 1912 so it had to be an old poem, has anyone heard this besides the Rock song that has the same words? Ray Small and fast what every girl dreams of! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhillyKev 0 #2 February 24, 2004 Don't know...but that is creepy. Question for you though....I can't understand what this means... QuoteI came across this real old cemetary, and after looking around the only person there out of maybe 200 graves was 16, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rdutch 0 #3 February 24, 2004 QuoteDon't know...but that is creepy. Question for you though....I can't understand what this means... QuoteI came across this real old cemetary, and after looking around the only person there out of maybe 200 graves was 16, Sorry my bad the oldest person there Ray Small and fast what every girl dreams of! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #4 February 24, 2004 QuoteQuoteDon't know...but that is creepy. Question for you though....I can't understand what this means... QuoteI came across this real old cemetary, and after looking around the only person there out of maybe 200 graves was 16, Sorry my bad the oldest person there So you are saying that the graveyard was only teenagers and younger?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rdutch 0 #5 February 24, 2004 Yeah, maybe there was a sickness, plague or something that killed kids at those ages, but it was a big cemetary and all the headstones were worn out and small the biggest and by far the best had that poem. Edited to add it was Pikeville Ky, I think but as far as I remember that was it. Ray Small and fast what every girl dreams of! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paige 0 #6 February 24, 2004 That's creepy Ray. I don't know where the poem is from but after all my shit on Wed. I will hunt the poem down and find out it's origins and shit. I had a really cool poetry prof. who will help. Till then...Tunnel Pink Mafia Delegate www.TunnelPinkMafia.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #7 February 24, 2004 That is pretty creepy, but also sounded kind of well-meaning if not a bit despairing, said from the point of view of the deceased. Kinda reminded me of "One, two, Freddy's comin' for you... Three, four, better lock the door... Five, six, grab your crucifix..."-Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lolie 0 #8 February 24, 2004 It was first used in England in 1376 AD, on the stone of Edward the Black Prince. (I'm doing anything I can to avoid studying for my midterms tonight. Anything else you need to know? If I don't know it, I'll find it! ) -Miranda you shall above all things be glad and young / For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad / whatever's living will yourself become. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slug 1 #9 February 24, 2004 Quote Remember friends as you pass by, you are now as once was I, As I am you soon shall be, prepare for Death and follow me. *** has anyone heard this besides the Rock song that has the same words? Didn't know it was a poem but overheard something similar from a "senior citizen" telling a sweet young thing. "You are as I was, I am as you will be" IOW we were all born and we'll all get old (some just older than other's). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
